holiday:al-hijrah

Deaths at the Borders: Evidence from the Southern External Borders of the EU (2016, with Tamara Last and Orcun Ulusoy) | Thomas Spijkerboer
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Deaths at the Borders: Evidence from the Southern External Borders of the EU (2016, with Tamara Last and Orcun Ulusoy)

This paper contains a brief introduction to the Deaths at the Border Database, including methodology, prelimiary outcomes and preliminary policy conclusions.

Deaths at the Borders: Evidence from the Southern External Borders of the EU, published in
HIJRA – La Revue Marocaine de Droit d’Asile et Migration 2016, no. 1
– English version: p. 5-23

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In her black-and-white photographs, #Sharmin introduces us to #Hijra, people in India and #Bangladesh who were designated male at birth but identify as women. Ranging in age, these people representing “The Third Gender” have persevered in the face of ostracism: finding community, building families, loving and being loved. Gordon’s color portraits depict a small group of Nigerian Muslim women who write literature in defiance of censorship. Relying on historic records, Jeanine Michna-Bales has made color images that imagine the journey to freedom made by an American slave along the Underground Railroad. Dionysis Kouris’s photographs tell the stories of migrants squatting in an abandoned Columbia Records office building in Athens, Greece. Liam Maloney’s installation combines photographs of Syrian refugees in Lebanon and the text messages they exchange with family and friends living through the civil war, emphasizing digital communication as a tool for the preservation of humanity amid conflict. Viewers of Maloney’s installation are invited to connect and receive messages on their own phones as they view the images.

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Egypt army kills Sinai’s most wanted jihadist - Telegraph

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Abu Munir, 62, was the most important sheikh or religious voice in the Sinai militant movement. He was said by the authorities to lead Takfir wil-Hijra, a long-standing al-Qaeda-linked group, and was also associated with Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, a militant variant which has emerged in the last two years leading an insurgency in the Sinai against the Egyptian military.
He was personally sought in connection with the ambush and killing of 25 police recruits removed from the bus taking them on leave in August.